Highway Robbery: Controversial Calls Cost Bucs Against Fins

... their team. My own mother believes there is an international conspiracy of referees against the Buccaneers.

Most of the time I write it off as foolish homerism. Then when you see a game like today, when the calls were lopsidedly in favor of the home team, you have to pause.

Calls that were so confounding, confusing, and down right wrong, you just have to wonder if NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will launch an investigation to see if Referee Tony Corrente or members of his crew had money on Miami's 25-23 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Of course, Corrente and his crew didn't allow the Dolphins to run for 199 yards on the ground. They didn't let pedestrian Quarterback Chad Henne drive his team 77 yards to the game winning f...